Fixing a broken OWA 2010 Virtual Directory

Reading Time: 3 minutesSeveral days ago a co-worker needed my assistance with a broken Outlook Web App 2010. A failed attempt to configure the root to redirect it to \owa unfortunately failed. Trying to repair it also failed and at the end OWA was broken. A restore did not fix the issue. Now, Exchange 2010 SP1 has the ability to reset Virtual Directories used by the Exchange Client Access Role. Unfortunately, this didn’t work. Trying to remove the OWA virtual directory with: Remove-OwaVirtualDirectory

December 16, 2010 Dave Stork Exchange, Exchange 2007, Exchange 2010, Management, Question of the day Leave a comment

Can you easily restrict or accept messages to a Distribution Group?

Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday’s question of the day is whether you can restrict users mailing to a specific Distribution Group in Exchange? Yes, you can. You can add users but also Distribution Groups to the list of who the Distribution List will accept messages from. The messages of members of the Distribution will then be accepted. A (mail enabled) Security Group is also possible and Query-based or Dynamic Distribution groups are also possible. Within the Exchange Console, go to the properties of the